The confidentiality of family secrets revealed by a patient is a common ethical dilemma for counselors and therapists.

A common dilemma, because even when television sets aren't on, their potential lures people, leaving living rooms unused.

So Parcells acquired young safeties and now faces a dilemma common to coaches.

The choice between bureaucracy and adhocracy represents a common dilemma.

A fine ship, with a fine young crew welded together by their common dilemma, determined to get home.

No help was offered to the officer facing this common dilemma.

My mother was again plunged into a version of that dilemma common to all divorced wives.

Jobs, commissions, grants, pensions, patronage of one kind or another, all pose common dilemmas.

Everywhere in Africa moral and humanitarian decisions are a common dilemma, with money the deciding factor.

Busy completing a novel and anxious for a comfortable work place, he found himself in a common, though not often talked-about dilemma.